---
title: It obtained its greatest power under the Ottos, and the imperial pri… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: It obtained its greatest power under the Ottos, and the imperial princesses were often sent here for their education, or for security in times of danger. Who acts: convent, princesses. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2, with its depe
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/19/98/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / [A Historical Tale., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/19/) / 98

# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 98

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It obtained its greatest power under the Ottos, and the imperial princesses were often sent here for their education, or for security in times of danger.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** convent, princesses · **What happens:** obtain, send, educate · **To what, where:** greatest power, Ottos, imperial princesses

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (convent, princesses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:19:98
# text = It obtained its greatest power under the Ottos, and the imperial princesses were often sent here for their education, or for security in times of danger.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Ottos	Otto	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obtain** | past | convent | convent's greatest power |  | the Ottos |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset power=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past · passive |  | the imperial princesses |  | here |  | for princesses's education; security *obj*; often *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination security=Theme |
| 3 | **educate** |  | princesses *= princess* |  |  |  |  |  | nom education «act transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/19/97/)
- next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/19/99/)
- ↑ back to [A Historical Tale., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/19/)